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Stephen R Palmquist is a Kantian philosopher in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University. His over 200 publications, that include works translated into at least twelve different languages, include over 110 refereed articles and book chapters

Education and Career

Palmquist did his PhD in Philosophical Theology at Oxford University under the supervision of John Macquarrie and W.H. Walsh in August 1987. The next month he joined as faculty at Hong Kong Baptist University. He played an important role in compiling e-text versions of the various writings of Immanuel Kant. He founded “Kant on the Web”, an award-winning website in 1995. The staff profile page describes that his website "was selected as ‘Web site of the month’ by Point of Life (11/03), offered the reputable ‘Study Web Excellence Award’ (6/99), given a ‘Special Mention Award’ by the Churches.com organization (7/98), placed on a list of web sites specially recommended by the Britannica Internet Guide (5/98), won Majon Web Select’s prestigious ‘seal of excellence award’ (6/97), and selected as ‘Top 1% of the Web’ by 21st Century Renaissance (6/96)."

In 2020, Palmquist received the HKBU President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work.

Hong Kong Philosophy Cafe

Palmquist founded the Hong Kong Philosophy Cafe in 1999 which currently has autonomous branches running concurrently in Hong Kong. In a 2012 interview on Academic Foresights, he said that the Cafe had a mailing list of over 700. Talks and discussions at the Cafe address contemporary metaphysical, political, and economical issues that attract popular media attention

Major Publications

  • Kant and mysticism: Critique as the experience of baring all in reason's light (2019). (ISBN 9781793604651)
  • Kant on Intuition: Western and Asian Perspectives on Transcendental Idealism (Routledge, 2019). (ISBN 978-0-429-49177-1)
  • Cultivating Personhood: Kant and Asian Philosophy, edited Proceedings of the Kant in Asia international conference (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010)
  • Kant and the New Philosophy of Religion, co-edited with Chris L. Firestone (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, January 2006)
  • Kant’s Critical Religion: Volume Two of Kant’s System of Perspectives (London: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2000)
  • Kant’s System of Perspectives: An architectonic interpretation of the Critical philosophy (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993)

References

  1. "Professor Stephen Palmquist". HKBU Research. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  2. "Stephen Palmquist". ORCID. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  3. "Academic Staff". Department of Religion and Philosophy, HKBU. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  4. "Professor Stephen Palmquist". HKBU Research. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  5. "Academic Staff". Department of Religion and Philosophy, HKBU. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  6. "Award Receipients". Hong Kong Baptist University. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  7. "Philosophy in Hong Kong". Academic Foresights. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  8. DiBiasio, Jame. "The good, the bad, MPF?". FinanceAsia, December 2000. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  9. Strauss, Valerie. "Philosophy's Resurgence,". Washington Post, October 2000. Retrieved 1 July 2020.

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